[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14768]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       KRAUTHAMMER CORRECT AGAIN

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, in last week's Washington 
Post, columnist Charles Krauthammer analyzed the President's plan to 
defeat ISIL:
  ``Beyond the strategy's halfhearted substance is the author's 
halfhearted tone. Obama's reluctance and ambivalence are obvious. This 
is a man driven to give this speech by public opinion. It shifted 
radically with the televised beheading of two Americans. Every poll 
shows that Americans overwhelmingly want something to be done--and 
someone to lead the doing.''
  ISIL's conquest in Iraq and Syria is a consequence of the 
administration's failed policies that do not achieve peace through 
strength. The President ignored evidence of increasing terrorist safe 
havens across North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, as the 
southern border is now porous.
  The United States must effectively defeat ISIL to stop attacks on 
American families. I hope the President shows real leadership and takes 
effective action to achieve victory over those who vow mass murder of 
American families.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and the President should take 
action remembering September 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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